System of control



L. M. PERKINS.

SYSTEM OF CONTROL. APPL ICATlON FILED NOV-16, 1912.

1,374,521 Patented Apr. 12, 1921 2 SHEETS-SHUT 1.

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L. M. PERKINS.

SYSTEM OF CONTROL.

APPLICATION FIL'ED NOV-16. 1917.

1,374,521. Patented Apr. 12, 1921.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

Automat/z IIIII-IIIIII WITNESSES: INVENIOR d Laurence fil. Per/r/ n s M BY ' 1 ATTORNEY NORRIS PEIERS. |NC.. Llmo WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES earner OFFICE.

LAURENCE MI. PERKINS, OF S'WISSVALE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO VIESTING- HOUSE ELECTRIC & MIANUFAGTUBING COMPANY, .A CORPORATION OF IPENNSYL- VANIA.

App1ication filed November To all whom it may concern: I

it known that I, LAURENCE M. PER- rill-TS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Swissvale, in the county of Allery and State of Pennsylvania, have inted a new and useful Improvement in n ems of Control, of which the following is a specification.

.lviy invention relates to systemsof control or dynamo-electric machines, especially'of the single-phase commutator type.

When starting motors of the above-indi- Jed character, except on very low freuency systems, it is necessary to reduce the riting field strength in order to prevent essive sparking at "hes reason of the transformer action pulsating exciting flux upon the coils hort-circited by the brushes. The desired i has been accomplished in the'prior art t connecting the exciting field winding in s with the customarily provided inducield winding during the starting period, the exciting field winding has subsently heen changed over to the armature circuit upon the attainment of a" predetermined'speedsufiicient to reduce the bad effects of the abeve-mentionsd transformer action by reason of the compensating voltage that is induced in the short-circuited coils by the rotation thereof through the flux that is created by the inducing field winding. In many cases, the number of turns in the inducing lield winding is equal to approXi-' mately twice the number of turns upon the armature, and, consequently, although the above-mentioned starting connection of the exciting; field winding will produce the desired result, it has certain disadvantages, such as definitely fixing the ratio of transformed voltage between the inducingfield winding and the armature and, furthermore, it causes the exciting field current to be out of phase with the armaturecurrent,

thus reducing thestarting torque for a given value of current.

The object of my present invention is to provide a relatively simple andinexpensive control system for single-phase commutator motors, wherein the above-mentioned reduction of exciting-field-winding. strength, at

starting, and the maintenance of desired phase relations are readily accomplishedby the use of auxiliary apparatus, namely, a

SYSTEM 035 CONTROL.

Specification of Letters Patent;

the connnutatorv preventive coil of the type that is cus tomarily employed in systems of the class in question.

Other objects of my evident from the subsequent detailed description, and, are set forth with particularity in the appended claims.

My invention may best be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a diagrammatic View of a combined main-circuit and auxiliary-circuit control system that is organized in accordance with the present invention;and Fig. 2 to Fig. 5, inclusive, are simplified diagrammatic views serving to illustrate various main-circuit connections during the operation of the motor.

Referring to Fig. l of the drawings, the system shown comprises a suitable derived source of energy, such as a secondary wind ing T2 of a transformer, for supplying en,- ergy to a single-phase m0tor'havinga com mutator-type armature A; a main or exciting field winding E; and a compensating or inducing field winding 1. A plurality of switches 1 to 10, inclusive, that are electri; cally governed from asultable master controller MC, maybe energized from a battery 13,01' other source of auxiliary energy, for

automatically varying the voltage induc-' tively impressed upon the armature by the inducing field winding under full-speed operating conditions. 7 I

The motor armaturefA is provided with two brushes l2 and 13 per pole, the machine being shown as of the two-pole type for the sake of simplicity and clearness, and the conventional arrangements of the eXcitmg field i winding and the inducing field winding being shown. It wlll be understood, however,

distributed around a laminated stator core, in accordance wlth a familiar pract ce, rather Patented. Apr. 12, 1921. 16, 1917., Serial No. 202,313. V

invention will become that the motor field windings are preferably than being wound upon salient polar projections of the type illustrated.

The preventive device 11 may be of any welldrnown construction and is shown as comprising a magnetizable core member 15 and a plurality of normally independent coils 16 and 17 which may be connected in series relation through the agency o1 switch 6.

Assuming that it is desired to effect acceleration of the motor, the master controller may be actuated to its initial operative position a, whereupon an auxiliary circuit is established from the positive terminal of the battery B through conductor 20, control finger 21, contact segment 22, and control linger 23 of the master controller, whence circuit is completed, through conductor 24- and the actuating coil of the switch 1, to ground or any other suitable return conductor to which the negative pole of the battery B is also connected. The contact segment 22 further whereby switches 2, 3, l. and 5 are closed in a simllar manner.

engages control fingers 25, 26, 27 and 28,

The main circuits completed in position a of the master controller are 1llustra-ted 1n a simplified manner in Fig. 2 and be traced in Fig. 1, as follows: from the lefthand terminal 30 of the secondary transformer winding T2, a circuit is established, through conductor 31, switch 1, conductor 32, inducing field winding 1, junction-point 33, conductors 34 and 35, switch 2 and con ductor 36, to an intermediate tap-point 37 of the secondary transformer winding, The inducing field winding is thus connected across a predetermined section'of the secondary transformer winding T2.

Another main circuit is established at this time from the right hand terminal ll) or the auxiliary secondary transformer winding T3, through that winding, conductor 4L1, switch 3,conductor l2, junction point 43, armature A and conductor 4. 4;, to the junction-point 33, whence circuit is con-- tinued to the secondary transformer wind-- ing tap-point 37', as previously traced, circuit being completed from this point through a section of the secondary winding to. another intermediate point 4-5, through con- 7 ductor 46, switch conductors 4T7 and 4-8.

left-hand coil 16 of the preventive device 11, junction-point 49, and conductor 50 to the right hand terminal d0 of the auxiliary secondary transformer winding T3. By reason of the peculiar diiferential, or negative arrangement of the auxiliary transformer winding, a materially reduced voltage is impressed upon the armature terminals, such relatively low voltage being necessary to provide proper speed conditions in conjunction with the weakening of the exciting field strength, as is well known. The purpose oi the illustrated arrangement of transformer windings will become evident from the sub sequent description of the control system.

An exciting circuit is established from another intermediate tap-point 51 of the sec ondary transformer winding, through conductor 52, switch 5, conductors 53 and 54, the right-hand coil 1'? of the preventive de-- vice 11, conductor 55, junction-point 56, conductor 57, exciting field-winding E, conductor 58, and the actuating coil of the limit switch L, to the junction-point 4:3 with the armature circuit. 7

Since the switch 6 is initially in the open condition, the coils l6 and 17 of the preventive device 11 are electrically inclependent or disconnected, and the connection of the coil 17 in series-circuit relation with the exciting field winding E, re duces the strength thereof to any desired value, dependent upon the design ot the preventive device, which determines the portion of the armature current that traverses the exciting field-winding In this way, the above-mentioned reduction of exciting field winding strength is produced during starting operation of the motor, while maintaining the exciting-field-winding current substantially in phase with the :mature current to produce maximum-torque conditions.

In position Z) of he master controller, control finger 60 is energized from the conta segment 22 to close the switch 6, and control fingers and 26 become disengaged from the contact segment 22 to the opening movement of switches 2 In this way, the straight doubly-fed or transformer-conduction connection that is shown in Fig. 3 is obtained, the auxiliary secondary transformer winding T3 being ex cluded from circuit, while the armat and exciting field winding are connected through switches i: and 5 and the preventive coils 16 and 17 across a predetermined sec tion of the secondary transformer winding T2. The closure 0:? switch 2 or switch ll) during the remaining motor operation is dependent upon limit switch L, as here A- after more fully described, both of these switches being shown in Fig. 5.

lwiil be observed that the movable connection of the armature circuitto the secondary transformer winding has not been shifted, although a relatively large increase of voltage is impressed upon the armature circuit by reason of the removal or the negatively-acting auxiliary transformer winding T3 from circuit. In this way, the desired increase of armature voltage, after the motor has been set into operation and the change to straight doubly fed connection 125 is made, is providedwithout requiring the use of a long sectionof, or large step along, the secondary transformer wincing, which would otherwise be necessary. By the con-' struction just recited, the necessary size of preventive coil and number of switches are reduced from what would be necessary if a single transformerwinding to provide the desired current capacity and voltage steps were used.

In position 0 of the master controller, control finger 27 is deenergized to allow switch 4 to open, while control finger 61 is energized to effect the closure of switch 7. Consequently, another intermediate tap-point 62 of the secondary transformer winding is connected through conductor 63, switch 7, conductors 64 and -48, left-hand preventive coil 16, junction-point 49, switch 6, junctionpoint 56, conductor 57, exciting field winding E, conductor 58, actuating coil of the limit switch L, and junction-point 43 to the right-hand armature brush 13. In this way, a further step of voltage is impressed upon the armature circuit to increase the motor speed, in accordance with a familiar practice.

In position (Z, control finger 28 is de'cinergized to cause switch 5 to open, while control finger 65 is energized from the contact segment 22 to effect the closure of switch 8, whereby another tap-point 66 of the secondary transformer winding is connected through conductor 67, switch 8, conductors 68 and 5 1, right-hand preventive coil 17 and conductor to junction-point 56, whence circuit is completed through the exciting field-winding and the armature, as previously traced. In this way, a predetermined increase of voltage is impressed upon the armature circuit. to further increase the motor speed.

When the master controller is actuated to its position 6, control finger 61 is deenergized to allow switch 7 to open, and anew control finger 69 is energized, whereby the switch 9 is closed to connect another tap-point 70 of the secondary transformer winding through conductor 71, switch 9, conductor 28 and the left-hand preventive coil 16 to switch 6, whence circuit is completed through the exciting field-windin and the armature, as already set forth. ince the switch 8 remains closed in position e of the master controller a voltage increase, corresponding to one-half of the voltage difference between the tap-points 66 and 70, is impressed upon the armature circuit and the motor is thus accelerated to full-speed operation. The simplified main-circuit connections at this period are illustrated in Fig. 4:.

At all times, automatic control of the inducing-field-winding voltage, in accordance with current conditions, as registered by the limit switch L, is effected. As previously mentioned, the function of the limit switch is to vary the voltage impressed upon the inducing field-winding I from the transformer winding T2, whereby the voltage that is induced by rotation of the armature conductors in the inducing field fiuxmay be adjusted to neutralize the voltage induced by the exciting field-winding through transformer action 1n the armature coils short-circuited by the brushes, the arrangement of parts being such that an increase of exciting field-current is accompanied by the impression of an increased voltage upon the in-' ducing field-winding, whereby commutating conditions are changed to satisfactorily meet the heavy-current conditions in the exciting field-winding. Conversely, when the exciting field-current reaches a certain lower value, it is desirable to reduce the compensating-field-winding voltage to improve commutating conditions in the machine.

The auxiliary circuits for effecting the desired automatic operation may be traced as follows: assuming that the limit switch L occupies its illustrated lower position, corresponding to a certain decrease of exciting field-current, a circuit is established from the positive terminal of the battery B, through conductor 75, movable contact'member 76 of the limitswitch L, in its lower position, conductor 79, and the actuating coil of the switch 10 to ground.v The closure of the switch 10 completes a circuit from a lower-voltage intermediate tap-point 90 of the secondary transformer winding T2, through conductor 91, switch 10 and conductor 34%, to the inner terminal of'the inducing field winding I, whereby a suitably decreased voltage is impressed upon the inducing field winding, for the purpose set forth.

On the other hand, whenthe limit switch L occupies its upper position corresponding to a predetermined increase of exciting field current, an auxiliary circuit is continued from the positively-energized conductor 75, I through the cooperating contact members of the limit switch L in its upper position, conductor 92, and control finger 25 of the master controller, whence circuit is completed through the actuating coil of the switch 2, whereby the original connection of the inducing field-winding to the transformer is restored to effect the desired increase of .inducing-field-winding strength. The relagle-phase commutator motor having an ar- I mature and an e'xciting field winding, of an inductive device, means for connecting said" device 'in circuit to prevent short-circuits of' said transformer winding during motor acceleration, means for connecting said inductive devicein series relation with a section of said transformer winding and with said field winding to reduce the strength thereof for starting, and switching means for subsequently connecting the armature in series relation with the field windingto increase the strength thereof for running conditions.

2. In a system of control the combination with a transformer winding and a single-phase commutator motor having an armature and an exciting and an inducing field winding, of an inductive device, means for connecting said device in circuit to prevent short-circuits of said transformer winding during motor acceleration and means for connecting said device in series relation with said exciting field winding and for connecting the inducing; field winding across a section of the transformer winding for starting to weaken the exciting; field strength while maintaining the exciting field-winding current substantially in phase with the armature current.

S. In a system of control, the combination with atransformer winding and a singlephase commutator motor having an ture and an exciting field winding, of an inductive device having a plurality of initially electrically independent coils, for connecting said device in circuit to prevent short-circuits of said transformer winding during motor acceleration, and means for connecting said coils in series relation with said field winding and with said armature, respectively, for starting.

4. In a system of control, the combination with a main transformer -winding and a single-phase commutator motor having an armature and anexciting field winding, of an auxiliary transformer winding, an inductive device means for connecting said auxiliary transformer winding in circuit with said armature differentially to said main transforr. er, and means connecting said inductive device in circuit with said field winding.

5. In a system of control the combination with a main transformer winding and a sin ale-phase commutator motor h' ring an armature and an exciting field winding/g of an auxiliary transformer wlndii an inductive device means con ct; said auxiliary transformer winding; SQTlcn relation with said armature andwita a portion of said main transformer winding. the two transformer windings being differ *i'tially related, and for connecting; s *tive device in 1 .s relation with swindingr for starting, and means said auxiliary transformer n ing and .ior connectinp; the armature .ries relation with the field winding for run A i 6. In a systemof control the combination vith a main transformer wigle-phase commutator motor-having an an, nature and an exciting lielu winding, of an ixiliary transfonner wind lly inoepenoent co s, means i i connecting auxiliary ti 1 iation with sformerwinaing in series e and with a portion of said main transrmer winding, the

two transformer windings being oifl'erentially related, and for connecting one of said coils in sales relation with said field winding starti l nating said auxi" .nsformer winding and for connect a armature in series relation with the d winding across a portion of the main transformer winding ror runn' 5; conditions. I

c timony whereof subscribed my name this 1917.

I have hereunto 30th'day o Get.

LAURENCE M. PERKINS.

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